German Presidential Election Campaign 1925 Footage

German Presidential Election Campaign, 1925
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	Catalog #:	368804
	Clip Number:	368804-1
	Orginal Film:	ON372C
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	Location:	Germany
	Year Shot:	1925 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	No
	Color:	No
	Headings:	ELECTIONS: Campaigns
	Description:	Excited campaigning in the Weimar Republic for the Presidential election on 29th March 1925, in which seven candidates were running (SEE NOTE.) Election campaign workers hold signs for candidate - -Braun, Hellpach, Marx; outside polling place; people exiting. 2 couples (incl. Social Democratic Candidate Otto Braun) arrive in car & enter building. Then they come back out; cross to car. CU Braun election poster; w/ drawing of man at ship's wheel. Campaign workers drive buses through streets;waving flags & throwing leaflets to crowds. Others walk carrying placards. Young boys now & then stop & stare at the camera. Group of people riding on a horse-drawn wagon decorated w/ KPD (Communist Party of Germany) banners & posters. More of the crazy campaign buses race through the streets; some boys chase after them. There is an atmosphere of excitement and wildness. One creative campaign worker carries a big branch w/ leaflets on all the twigs which fly off as he goes running down the street. One Braun campaign wagon rolls past w/ huge sign; which shows all other candidates names (Ludendorff; Held; Thalmann; Marx; Hellpach; Barres) w/ line through them & "nein" written by them; then Braun's name in giant letters. More leaflet-ing: High angle of crowd (looks like shot out 2nd story window from beside someone who is tossing leaflets out the window) as they catch leaflets & look at them. 2 men throwing leaflets. Others pass out leaflets to people sitting on bench; to women pushing baby carriages in park; to men on street in city. CU politician speaking- -Erich Ludendorff? More campaigning from wagons; at night; signs for communist leader Ernst Thalmann. More of the Braun signs NOTE: The seven candidates were Erich Ludendorff (NSDAP), Heinrich Held (BVP), Karl Jarres (DVP), Willy Hellpach (DDP), Wilhelm Marx (Zentrum), Otto Braun (SPD) und Ernst ThSlmann (Kommunistische Partei Deutschland - KPD). None of the seven won the necessary majority, so a second election was scheduled for a month later. Several of the more conservative-leaning parties joined up and recruited the aged and respected Field Marshal von Hindenburg to run as their candidate, and some of the leftists got together and backed Marx. Hindenburg won.